caliper | (verb) measure the diameter of something with calipers | Synonyms: calliper |
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calliper | (verb) measure the diameter of something with calipers | Synonyms: caliper |
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calumniate | (verb) charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone | Synonyms: asperse, besmirch, defame, denigrate, slander, smear, smirch, sully |
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calve | (verb) give birth to (a calf) | Synonyms: have young |
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(verb) release ice | Synonyms: break up |
camber | (verb) curve upward in the middle | - |
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camouflage | (verb) disguise by camouflaging; exploit the natural surroundings to disguise something | - |
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camphorate | (verb) treat with camphor | - |
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canalise | (verb) provide (a city) with a canal | Synonyms: canal, canalize |
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canalize | (verb) provide (a city) with a canal | Synonyms: canal, canalise |
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cancel | (verb) make invalid for use | Synonyms: invalidate |
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(verb) remove or make invisible | Synonyms: delete |
(verb) declare null and void; make ineffective | Synonyms: strike down |
(verb) postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled | Synonyms: call off, scratch, scrub |
(verb) make up for | Synonyms: offset, set off |
candle | (verb) examine eggs for freshness by holding them against a light | - |
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cane | (verb) beat with a cane | Synonyms: flog, lambast, lambaste |
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canker | (verb) infect with a canker | - |
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(verb) become infected with a canker | - |
cannibalise | (verb) eat human flesh | Synonyms: cannibalize |
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(verb) use parts of something to repair something else | Synonyms: cannibalize |
cannibalize | (verb) eat human flesh | Synonyms: cannibalise |
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(verb) use parts of something to repair something else | Synonyms: cannibalise |
cannonade | (verb) attack with cannons or artillery | - |
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cannulate | (verb) introduce a cannula or tube into | Synonyms: cannulise, cannulize, canulate, intubate |
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cannulise | (verb) introduce a cannula or tube into | Synonyms: cannulate, cannulize, canulate, intubate |
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cannulize | (verb) introduce a cannula or tube into | Synonyms: cannulate, cannulise, canulate, intubate |
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canoe | (verb) travel by canoe | - |
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canonise | (verb) declare (a dead person) to be a saint | Synonyms: canonize, saint |
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(verb) treat as a sacred person | Synonyms: canonize |
canonize | (verb) declare (a dead person) to be a saint | Synonyms: canonise, saint |
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(verb) treat as a sacred person | Synonyms: canonise |
canoodle | (verb) fondle or pet affectionately | - |
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canter | (verb) ride at a canter | - |
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(verb) go at a canter, of horses | - |
(verb) cause to ride at a cantering pace | - |
cantilever | (verb) construct with girders and beams such that only one end is fixed | - |
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(verb) project as a cantilever | - |
cantillate | (verb) recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm | Synonyms: chant, intonate, intone |
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canulate | (verb) introduce a cannula or tube into | Synonyms: cannulate, cannulise, cannulize, intubate |
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capacitate | (verb) make capable | - |
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(verb) cause (spermatozoa) to undergo the physical changes necessary to fertilize an egg | - |
(verb) make legally capable or qualify in law | - |
caper | (verb) jump about playfully | - |
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capitalise | (verb) convert (a company's reserve funds) into capital | Synonyms: capitalize |
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(verb) consider expenditures as capital assets rather than expenses | Synonyms: capitalize |
(verb) compute the present value of a business or an income | Synonyms: capitalize |
(verb) write in capital letters | Synonyms: capitalize |
(verb) draw advantages from | Synonyms: capitalize, take advantage |
(verb) supply with capital, as of a business by using a combination of capital used by investors and debt capital provided by lenders | Synonyms: capitalize |
capitalize | (verb) convert (a company's reserve funds) into capital | Synonyms: capitalise |
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(verb) consider expenditures as capital assets rather than expenses | Synonyms: capitalise |
(verb) compute the present value of a business or an income | Synonyms: capitalise |
(verb) write in capital letters | Synonyms: capitalise |
(verb) draw advantages from | Synonyms: capitalise, take advantage |
(verb) supply with capital, as of a business by using a combination of capital used by investors and debt capital provided by lenders | Synonyms: capitalise |
capitulate | (verb) surrender under agreed conditions | - |
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caponise | (verb) convert a cock into a capon | Synonyms: caponize |
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caponize | (verb) convert a cock into a capon | Synonyms: caponise |
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capriole | (verb) perform a capriole, in ballet | - |
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(verb) perform a capriole, of horses in dressage | - |
capsize | (verb) overturn accidentally | Synonyms: turn turtle, turtle |
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capsulate | (verb) enclose in a capsule | Synonyms: capsule, capsulise, capsulize |
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capsule | (verb) put in a short or concise form; reduce in volume | Synonyms: capsulise, capsulize, encapsulate |
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(verb) enclose in a capsule | Synonyms: capsulate, capsulise, capsulize |
capsulise | (verb) put in a short or concise form; reduce in volume | Synonyms: capsule, capsulize, encapsulate |
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(verb) enclose in a capsule | Synonyms: capsulate, capsule, capsulize |
capsulize | (verb) put in a short or concise form; reduce in volume | Synonyms: capsule, capsulise, encapsulate |
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(verb) enclose in a capsule | Synonyms: capsulate, capsule, capsulise |
captivate | (verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
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capture | (verb) capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping | Synonyms: catch |
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(verb) succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase | Synonyms: catch, get |
(verb) succeed in representing or expressing something intangible | - |
(verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, captivate, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate, trance |
(verb) take possession of by force, as after an invasion | Synonyms: appropriate, conquer, seize |
(verb) bring about the capture of an elementary particle or celestial body and causing it enter a new orbit | - |
caracole | (verb) make a half turn on a horse, in dressage | - |
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caramelise | (verb) convert to caramel | Synonyms: caramelize |
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(verb) be converted into caramel | Synonyms: caramelize |
caramelize | (verb) convert to caramel | Synonyms: caramelise |
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(verb) be converted into caramel | Synonyms: caramelise |
carbonate | (verb) treat with carbon dioxide | - |
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(verb) turn into a carbonate | - |
carbonise | (verb) turn into carbon, as by burning | Synonyms: carbonize |
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(verb) unite with carbon | Synonyms: carbonize, carburise, carburize |
carbonize | (verb) turn into carbon, as by burning | Synonyms: carbonise |
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(verb) unite with carbon | Synonyms: carbonise, carburise, carburize |
carboxylate | (verb) treat (a chemical compound) with carboxyl or carboxylic acid | - |
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carburet | (verb) combine with carbon | - |
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carburise | (verb) unite with carbon | Synonyms: carbonise, carbonize, carburize |
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carburize | (verb) unite with carbon | Synonyms: carbonise, carbonize, carburise |
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care | (verb) to hope, to desire or to prefer to have something, or to do something | Synonyms: like, wish |
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(verb) feel concern or interest | - |
(verb) be concerned with | Synonyms: worry |
(verb) be in charge of, act on, or dispose of | Synonyms: deal, handle, manage |
(verb) provide care for | Synonyms: give care |
careen | (verb) move sideways or in an unsteady way | Synonyms: shift, tilt, wobble |
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(verb) walk as if unable to control one's movements | Synonyms: keel, lurch, reel, stagger, swag |
career | (verb) move headlong at high speed | - |
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caress | (verb) touch or stroke lightly in a loving or endearing manner | Synonyms: fondle |
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caricature | (verb) represent in or produce a caricature of | Synonyms: ape |
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carmine | (verb) color carmine | - |
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carnalise | (verb) debase through carnal gratification | Synonyms: carnalize, sensualise, sensualize |
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carnalize | (verb) debase through carnal gratification | Synonyms: carnalise, sensualise, sensualize |
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(verb) ascribe to an origin in sensation | Synonyms: sensualize |
(verb) represent materialistically, as in a painting or a sculpture | Synonyms: sensualize |
carouse | (verb) engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking | Synonyms: riot, roister |
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carpenter | (verb) work as a carpenter | - |
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carpet | (verb) cover with a carpet | - |
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(verb) cover completely, as if with a carpet | - |
(verb) form a carpet-like cover (over) | - |
cartwheel | (verb) do cartwheels: perform an acrobatic movement using both hands and feet | - |
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carve | (verb) cut to pieces | Synonyms: cut up |
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(verb) form by carving | - |
(verb) engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface | Synonyms: chip at |
cascade | (verb) arrange (open windows) on a computer desktop so that they overlap each other, with the title bars visible | - |
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(verb) rush down in big quantities, like a cascade | Synonyms: cascade down |
case | (verb) enclose in, or as if in, a case | Synonyms: encase, incase |
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(verb) look over, usually with the intention to rob | - |
caseate | (verb) become cheeselike | - |
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(verb) turn into cheese | - |
cashier | (verb) discharge with dishonor, as in the army | - |
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(verb) discard or do away with | - |
casket | (verb) enclose in a casket | - |
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castigate | (verb) censure severely | Synonyms: chasten, chastise, correct, objurgate |
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(verb) inflict severe punishment on | - |
castle | (verb) move the king two squares toward a rook and in the same move the rook to the square next past the king | - |
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castrate | (verb) remove the testicles of a male animal | Synonyms: demasculinise, demasculinize, emasculate |
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(verb) remove the ovaries of | Synonyms: alter, neuter, spay |
(verb) deprive of strength or vigor | Synonyms: emasculate |
(verb) edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate | Synonyms: bowdlerise, bowdlerize, expurgate, shorten |
catabolise | (verb) subject to catabolism | Synonyms: catabolize |
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catabolize | (verb) subject to catabolism | Synonyms: catabolise |
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catalogue | (verb) make an itemized list or catalog of; classify | Synonyms: catalog |
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(verb) make a catalogue, compile a catalogue | Synonyms: catalog |
catalyse | (verb) change by catalysis or cause to catalyze | Synonyms: catalyze |
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catalyze | (verb) change by catalysis or cause to catalyze | Synonyms: catalyse |
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catechise | (verb) examine through questioning and answering | Synonyms: catechize |
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(verb) give religious instructions to | Synonyms: catechize |
catechize | (verb) examine through questioning and answering | Synonyms: catechise |
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(verb) give religious instructions to | Synonyms: catechise |
categorise | (verb) place into or assign to a category | Synonyms: categorize |
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categorize | (verb) place into or assign to a category | Synonyms: categorise |
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catenate | (verb) arrange in a series of rings or chains, as for spores | Synonyms: catenulate |
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catenulate | (verb) arrange in a series of rings or chains, as for spores | Synonyms: catenate |
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cater | (verb) give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance | Synonyms: ply, provide, supply |
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(verb) supply food ready to eat; for parties and banquets | - |
caterwaul | (verb) utter shrieks, as of cats | Synonyms: yowl |
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cathect | (verb) inject with libidinal energy | - |
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catheterise | (verb) insert a catheter into (a body part) | Synonyms: catheterize |
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catheterize | (verb) insert a catheter into (a body part) | Synonyms: catheterise |
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catholicise | (verb) cause to adopt Catholicism | Synonyms: catholicize, latinise, latinize |
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catholicize | (verb) cause to adopt Catholicism | Synonyms: catholicise, latinise, latinize |
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cause | (verb) cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner | Synonyms: get, have, induce, make, stimulate |
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(verb) give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally | Synonyms: do, make |
causeway | (verb) pave a road with cobblestones or pebbles | - |
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(verb) provide with a causeway | - |
cauterise | (verb) burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent | Synonyms: burn, cauterize |
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(verb) make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals | Synonyms: callous, cauterize |
cauterize | (verb) burn, sear, or freeze (tissue) using a hot iron or electric current or a caustic agent | Synonyms: burn, cauterise |
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(verb) make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals | Synonyms: callous, cauterise |
cave | (verb) explore natural caves | Synonyms: spelunk |
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(verb) hollow out as if making a cave or opening | Synonyms: undermine |
cavern | (verb) hollow out as if making a cavern | Synonyms: cavern out |
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cease | (verb) put an end to a state or an activity | Synonyms: discontinue, give up, lay off, quit, stop |
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(verb) have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical | Synonyms: end, finish, stop, terminate |
cede | (verb) relinquish possession or control over | Synonyms: deliver, give up, surrender |
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(verb) give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another | Synonyms: concede, grant, yield |
celebrate | (verb) have a celebration | Synonyms: fete |
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(verb) behave as expected during of holidays or rites | Synonyms: keep, observe |
(verb) assign great social importance to | Synonyms: lionise, lionize |